Rope server



Jan. 14,1947. H, RAYMOND 2,414,169

` i ROE SERVER Fiied Jan. 45, 1945 Patented Jan. 14, r1947 'i UNI-TEDSTAT ES PATENT OFFICE y ROPE SERVER Henry Raymond, Sturgeon Bay, Wis.Application January 5, 1945, Serial No. 571,395

4 Claims. l

The present invention relates to a new and useful improvement in devicesfor serving or. winding wire, cord about 'a rope to protect the ropefrom chang as well as to protect the rope from injury or deteriorationby the elements.

An important object of the present invention is to provide a device ofthis character by means of which the wire or cord may be held taut whilethe same is wound about the rope.

More specically, the invention embodies a support for a reel on whichthe wire or cord is wound and to be payed out therefrom together withtensioning means carried by the reel support for maintaining the payedout wire or cord in a taut position.

detachably secured on one means of nuts I5 and be- I5 and the adjacentside of the end of the shaft by tween the nuts reel support is wind awire or cord II on the reel I I.

The wire or cord is payed out through a guide I8 carried by the handle 6adjacent the reel sup- I9 formed in the upper surface of the plate '1.

A clamping plate is positioned on top of the plate 1, the plate 1 havinga pair of upstanding pins 2| on which the front end of the clampingplate 2|] is slidably mounted and 22 rise from the plate 'I adjacent theinner por- 2.is also slidably mounted, the bolts 22 having wing nuts 23threaded thereon for adjusting the tension of coil springs 24 mounted onthe bolts and positioned between the clamping plate 20 and the wing nutwhereby to yieldably maintain the clamping plate 20 in clampingengagement with the plate 7 to frictionally hold the wire or cord IIbetween said plate and to maintain the same in a taut position whilepaying out or unwinding the same from the reel.

In the operation of turned around the rope during the serving thereoDuring the serving action the handle I4 is removed and attached to oneof the extensions 9 of the reel support by means of a screw 25.

The tension of the springs 24 may be regulated by adjusting the wingnuts 23 whereby to adjust the frictional engagement of the plate 2U withthe cord.

It is believed that the manner of operation and vice will be readilyunderstood from the foregoing without further detailed explanation.

Having thus described the invention, what I claim is:

1. A rope server of the class described comprising a handle, means forrotatably mounting Windmg and unwinding a serving cord thereon, saidcord eX- n tending longitudinally of the handle, cooperatfrom the reelto maintain the cord in a taut condition, a detachable hand grip, andmeans to mount said grip on said rst-mentioned means or on said reel.

3. A rope server of the class described comprising a handle, means forrotatably mounting a reel at one end of the handle for winding andunwinding a serving cord thereon,l said cord extending longitudinally ofthe handle, a fixed plate at the other end of the handle along which thecord is adapted to travel during its unwinding action and aspring-biased clamping plate guided by said fixed plate and adapted tofrictionally clamp the cord therebetween.v

4. A rope server of the class described cornprising a handle, means forrotatably mounting a reel at one end of the handle for winding andunwinding a serving cord thereon, said oord extending longitudinallt7 atthe handle, a xed plate at the other end of the handle and having agroove in one surface thereof adapted to receive the cord, pins' risingfrom said plate, a clamping plate slidably mounted on said pins andspring means for urging said clamping plate into fric- 10 tionalengagement with the cord.

HENRY RAYMOND.

